Jul 26, 20080
Chess: The Game with a Trillion Combinations
Categories: Expanding the Present
At the beginning of a chess game, White has twenty possible moves and Black has twenty ways to respond – for a total of 400 possible positions after the opening turns. After two moves for each player there are close to two hundred thousand possible chess positions and after five moves the possible number of positions is over a trillion. In fact, there are more possible chess positions than there are atoms in the universe, according to estimates made ... Read More
